MALUNGON, Sarangani (February 4, 2011) – Pupils get ready to welcome visitors at the school entrance with a bamboo-made man bridge. Local officials, education and language experts led the launching of Lamlifew Elementary School as pilot mother tongue- based multi-lingual education (MTB-MLE) of the province Friday (February 4). (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) Blaan School
February 8, 2011 By
MALUNGON, Sarangani (February 4, 2011) – Pupils get ready to welcome visitors at the school entrance with a bamboo-made man bridge. Local officials, education and language experts led the launching of Lamlifew Elementary School as pilot mother tongue- based multi-lingual education (MTB-MLE) of the province Friday (February 4). (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) Tree-planting for the launching of International Year of Forests
February 8, 2011 By
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 2, 2011) – Conal Holdings Corporation project assurance manager Rommel Tomas Falgui joins municipal mayor Jose Zamorro in a massive tree-planting activity in Sitio Langaran, as DENR and local government launch the International Year of Forests, Wednesday February 2. Conal Holdings Corporation, proponent of the 200 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Maasim is also developing a 7,500 hectares agro-forestry project. (Cocoy Sexcion/ SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) DENR information and education campaign
February 8, 2011 By
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 2, 2011) – Forest Management Section chief and forester Jesus Boja of Sarangani Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) gestures a point, underlining the importance of rehabilitating and protecting the forest and watershed life in an education and information campaign in Sitio Langaran, kicking off the province’s International Year of Forests celebration Wednesday, February 2. PENRO partners with Conal Holdings Corporation’s agro-forestry and Siguel riverbank rehabilitation project in Maasim. (Cocoy Sexcion/ SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) For my future
February 8, 2011 By
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 2, 2011) – A pupil from Langaran Primary School prepares to transplant a budding Mahogany tree marking the provincial-wide celebration of the International Year of Forests Wednesday, February 2. (Cocoy Sexcion/ SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) Flag-raising ceremony
February 8, 2011 By
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 2, 2011) – Villagers and pupils of Langaran Primary School display nationalism during the flag ceremony Wednesday, February 2, where Conal Holdings Corporation have turned-over a two-classrom school building to Department of Education as part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities. The building which is a 10 by 40 meter-concrete edifice occupying 144 square meters of land area is now home to 117 grade one pupils in the village. The school also benefits children from outlying communities of Sitio Bog, Datal Pupo, Datal Basak, Purok Matbal among others. Sitio Langaran, a Blaan community of 60 households located in barangay Kablacan, is a 22-kilometer uphill stretch from the town proper. Due to the inaccessibility of the village, the tribe and their children for years were deprived of education. (Cocoy Sexcion/ SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) Cutting of ribbon
February 4, 2011 By
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 2, 2011) – Mayor Jose Zamorro (left) leads the cutting of ribbon with Conal Holdings Corporation project assurance manager Rommel Tomas Falgui (right) and Department of Education (DepEd) – Sarangani ssistant schools division superintendent Isagani Cruz (center, partly hidden), looking on, during the ceremonial turn-over of the two-classroom building donated by the company to DepEd, Wednesday February 2. Conal allocated P1 million for the construction of the school building as part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities. The building which is a 10 by 40 meter-concrete edifice occupying 144 square meters of land area is now home to 117 grade one pupils in the village. The school also benefits children from outlying communities of Sitio Bog, Datal Pupo, Datal Basak, Purok Matbal among others. Sitio Langaran, a Blaan community of 60 households located in barangay Kablacan, is a 22-kilometer uphill stretch from the town proper. (Cocoy Sexcion/ SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) Conal school turn-over
February 4, 2011 By
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 2, 2011) – Conal Holdings Corporation project assurance manager Rommel Tomas Falgui speaks before the villagers and pupils of Langaran Primary School as visitors looked on in a ceremonial turn-over of the two-classroom building donated by the company to Department of Education, Wednesday February 2. Conal allocated P1 million for the construction of the school building as part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities. Sitio Langaran, a Blaan community in barangay Kablacan, is a 22-kilometer uphill stretch from the town proper. (Cocoy Sexcion/ SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) Diversifying into more lucrative crops
February 4, 2011 By
Farmers in conflict-affected Buldon, Maguindanao Province, are briefed on different varieties of ginger by an agriculture specialist of USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, which is implemented under the oversight of the Mindanao Development Authority. Since 2008, through its Targeted Commodity Expansion Project, the GEM Program has provided training on higher-value agriculture to more than 5,700 Mindanao vegetable producers, and helped grower groups expand their market outreach in Luzon and the Visayas. GEM Reading of the Memorandum of Agreement
February 4, 2011 By
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (January 31, 2011) – Raquel Panal, PSWDO-ECCD (Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office-Early Childhood Care and Development) in-charge, reads the memorandum of agreement to SNP workers before the ECCD horses were distributed to their caretakers. One of the conditions stipulated in the MOA states that SNP worker is entitled to own the first offspring of the livestock as the primary caretaker of the same with the condition that an SNP worker can own or take away the first offspring as the owner only upon the delivery or birth of the next offspring subject to proper coordination and documentation of the barangay captain and concerned Municipal Social welfare and Development office personnel. (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) ECCD horse test ride
February 4, 2011 By
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (January 31, 2011) – Worker Fely Grace Maguan, 22, test rides a horse provided by UNICEF Monday, January 31, as part of its Early Childhood Care program which will be used for her daily ride in going to Malacutay SNP (Supervised Neighborhood Play) located in the outskirt barangay of Malapatan that caters 50 indigenous children. (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE) 